Re: [lojban-beginners] Place structure vs. grammatical morphemes

[mashers <mail@mashley.net>]

On Sunday, 14 October 2012 12:22:20 UTC+1, gleki wrote:

I don't understand. If English "to" has multiple meanings then why should Lojban be polysemous just like English?

 

It absolutely shouldn't. One the most appealing features of Lojban to me is that each symbol has only one meaning. My point was not that a symbol should represent multiple meanings.

 

But if you want one morpheme for one meaning of English "to" this is how Lojban already works

 

But the morphemes aren't spoken, they are implied by the place structure. How does this work in practice if a novice has limited knowledge of the brivla place structures? And doesn't having to learn the place structure for each brivla add more learning load?

 

There are also short forms of predicates. e.g. {seka'a} is kinda preposition that corresponds to the target of movement, roughly it's English "to". However, it's better to call such prepositions with a Lojbanic term "sumtcita" to avoid references to ambiguous western terms.

 

Ah yes I remember reading about the sumti tcita. Are they used in regular conversation?

 

And lastly, I suggest learning Lojban, become fluent in it. Then we can talk about such things in Lojban itself. :)

 

I'm working on it ;) Personally I find it useful to discuss new languages metalingusitically in order to understand their internal mechanisms.

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